Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Man is the cruelest animal.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!